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When her dead brother is decreed a traitor his body left unburied beyond the city walls Antigone refuses to accept this most severe of punishments Defying her uncle who governs she dares to say & No& Forging ahead with a funeral alone she places personal allegiance before politics a tenacious act that will trigger a cycle of destruction Renowned for the revelatory nature of his work Ivo van Hove first enthralled London audiences with his ground-breaking Roman Tragediesseen at the Barbican in 2009 Drawing on his &ability to break open texts calcified by tradition& (Guardian) the director now turns to a classic Greek masterpiece ...

The gods never move faster than when punishing men with the consequences of their own actions Desperate to gain control over a city ravaged by civil war Creon refuses to bury the body of Antigone&s rebellious brother Outraged she defies his edict Creon condemns the young woman his niece to be buried alive The people daren&t object but the prophet Teiresias warns that this tyranny will anger the gods the rotting corpse is polluting the city Creon hesitates & his fate is sealed Sophocles& great tragic play dramatises the clash between the family & the city & with high poetry & deep tragedy presents an irreconcilable but equally balanced conflict Sophoclean heroine Antigone has become a cultural archetype the symbol of personal integrity & an icon of political freedom whilst her coprotagonist Creon can be interpreted as either a civic saviour or a ruthless tyrant This translation by Don Taylor accurate yet poetic was made for a BBC TV production of the Theban Plays in 1986 which he directed ...

& It&s a dreadful thing to yieldbut resist now? Lay my pride bare to the blows of ruin? That&s dreadful too& The remarkable story of Greek tragedy&s most intrepid heroine Introducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin&s 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range & diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world & across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California & the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical & savage; poems epic & intimate; essays satirical & inspirational; & ideas that have shaped the lives of millions Sophocles (496 BC-406 BC) Sophocles&s works available in Penguin Classics are The Theban Plays & Electra & Other Plays ...

Love & loyalty hatred & revenge fear deprivation & political ambition these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe Recognized in his own day as perhaps the greatest of the Greek tragedians Sophocles' reputation has remained undimmed for two & a half thousand years His greatest innovation in the tragic medium was his development of a central tragic figure faced with a test of will & character risking obloquy & death rather than compromise his or her principles it is striking that Antigone & Electra both have a woman as their intransigent 'hero' Antigone dies rather neglect her duty to her family Oedipus' determination to save his city results in the horrific discovery that he has committed both incest & parricide & Electra's unremitting anger at her mother & her lover keeps her in servitude & despair These vivid translations combine elegance & modernity & are remarkable for their lucidity & accuracy Their sonorous diction economy & sensitivity to the varied metres & modes of the original musical delivery make them equally suitable for reading or theatrical peformance ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more ...

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